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社会学国际顶刊

Rural Sociology

（《农村社会学》）

的最新目录及摘要

Rural Sociology90(1), 2025

Rural Sociology（《农村社会学》）是美国农村社会学会的官方杂志，致力于推进农村社会学及相关研究领域的发展，以应对影响农村人口与农村地区的基础性问题和新兴的社会问题。作为一个前沿的研究平台，该刊欢迎来自世界各地的基于社会学视角的投稿，这些稿件的研究主题包括地方和全球系统对农村人口与地区的影响、农村社区复兴、农村人口变动、农村贫困、自然资源分配、环境/食品和农业系统等。

Rural Sociology 最新一期(Volume 90, Issue 1, March 2025)的内容，共计8篇文章，详情如下。

原版目录

Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-COVID-19 Pandemic（《新冠疫情后华盛顿州基蒂塔斯县的舒适移民与社区福祉》）

Alexander Theophilus, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Courtney Flint, Emma Epperson

Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster（《寻找更高的立足点：灾害影响下的流域迁移与文化管理》 ）

Brandon Folse, Nicholas Theis, Daniel Shtob

Eco-Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World（《生态尊重与人口减少：农村世界人口挑战的视角拓展》）

Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo, Esteban Ruíz-Ballesteros, María Cristina Gálvez García

How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage（《单身母亲如何评估和应对农村边缘地区的生活？对社会和空间劣势相互作用的洞察》）

Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Josef Bernard, Anja Decker

Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intentions of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach（《从构型视角看大学生返乡就业意向的多路径影响因素：一种模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）方法》）

Jianmeng Ye, Yuangang Zhang, Yi Chen, Yanzi Zhang

Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults’ Intentions to Stay for Employment（《在非大都市地区确保未来：社区和家庭对年轻人留乡就业意向的影响》）

Ha Young Choi, Karen Z. Kramer

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)（《种族多样性的增加挑战了乡村田园生活吗？一项关于比利时佛兰芒书面媒体中种族多样性与乡村关系的框架分析》）

Willemien Van Damme, Pascal De Decker, Hans Leinfelder

“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life（《“它在我们家一直开着”：警用扫描仪与农村日常生活》）

Michael Branch

Articles

Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Alexander Theophilus, Jessica Ulrich-Schad, Courtney Flint, Emma Epperson

Amenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing in many rural communities over the past several decades. While the impacts of amenity migration have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross-community comparative analysis, there is an ongoing need for research that continues to build upon our understanding of amenity migration's effects on individual and community wellbeing. Remote and hybrid work opportunities, expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, have allowed for an increasing number of people to live part or full-time in highly desirable rural locations, particularly those proximate to larger urban areas. In this paper, we discuss the historical and current trends of amenity migration in Kittitas County, proximate to Seattle, Washington, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains. Drawing upon perspectives shared in 80 interviews with key informants and community members about community wellbeing in three towns, we discuss the implications of amenity migration for the perceived quality of life of both longer-term residents and newer community members. Additionally, the setting and scope of this research allows for comparison between high-amenity rural communities with larger recreation economies, and adjacent less—amenity-based rural communities. Findings indicate that amenity migration continues to evolve and impact community wellbeing, primarily via community cultural changes and socioeconomic and housing inequality. However, there are nuanced geographical and longitudinal differences in the impacts of amenity migration. Additionally, participants perceived an increase in amenity migration patterns and impacts in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. To conclude, we discuss ongoing and potential initiatives that may help support community wellbeing, as well as possibilities for further improvements in policy and planning to equitably increase the quality of life for all residents.

Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster

Brandon Folse, Nicholas Theis, Daniel Shtob

Due to land loss from sea level rise, subsidence, and hurricanes, coastal Louisiana residents face decisions about whether and how to move to live more securely. These (seemingly) biophysical processes are compounded by sociocultural evolution and technological progress, which often make rural people and communities feel devalued. Using these observations as a background, we ask: how do disaster-related migration strategies correspond to broader migration trends nationally and globally? And, how do local, place-based cultures influence and permeate these migration decisions and strategies? We rely on 32 interviews with those who are from southeastern Louisiana and are connected to local seafood industries. Using the Intracoastal Canal as a line of risk demarcation, respondents were recruited as either stayers (those residing south of the canal) or migrants (those who moved north of the canal or elsewhere). We find that within both groups, many individuals and/or their family members participate in watershed migration and cultural curation, practices of moving up the bayou toward safer ground and bringing place-based practices along with this movement. We conclude by highlighting how the non-linear experiences of migrants are part of larger historical narratives and practices of change, migration, and cultural and physical survival.

Eco-Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World

Germán Jaraíz-Arroyo, Esteban Ruíz-Ballesteros, María Cristina Gálvez García

The dynamics of contemporary rural depopulation have been explained and addressed mainly as a result of structural transformations brought about by economic globalization. The influence of cultural/relational aspects has been less present in the scientific literature, where much of the analysis has been concerned with questions such as the effect of bond and attachment to the local. In connection with this matter, our paper explores how the interactions between social capital and community resilience dynamics affect decisions to leave or stay. The paper finds that the link between social capital and local resilience strategies is mediated by interdependent pattern. To understand how these connections are shaped and operate, we propose the notion of eco-esteem, understanding it as a pattern of linkages with the socio-ecosystem, determined by relationships and practices, which conditions people's attitudes, behaviors, expectations and, ultimately, their decisions to stay in or leave the rural world. To demonstrate the usefulness of this theoretical-methodological perspective, we present a qualitative ethnographic case study in two municipalities in Extremadura (Spain), which are similar in their socio-demographic characteristics, but which experience significantly different depopulation dynamics.

How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage

Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Josef Bernard, Anja Decker

When social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing on the under-researched issue of social positions, subjective perspectives, and agency among single mothers in rural peripheries characterized by weak labor markets and accessibility issues. Drawing from problem-centered interviews conducted in eastern Germany and Czechia, we investigate how single mothers perceive and evaluate the local and regional opportunities available to them. Additionally, we employ the concept of coping to analyze how they navigate spatial constraints. Our findings reveal that while our respondents encounter various spatial limitations and some feel ensnared in cycles of accumulating disadvantages, they often view these constraints as balanced or outweighed by the advantages of their living environment. Our in-depth analysis identifies room to maneuver in coping with spatial disadvantages and sheds light on the costs and risks associated with different coping strategies. In conclusion, we argue that incorporating a perspective on agency and subjectivity into research on inequalities allows for a nuanced understanding of the interrelation of social and spatial disadvantages.

Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach

Jianmeng Ye, Yuangang Zhang, Yi Chen, Yanzi Zhang

Rural areas in China are undergoing significant transformations and development phases. This study employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on quantitative data from a survey of 168 college students to investigate the configurations of factors leading to a high willingness to return to their hometowns for employment. The study focuses on their intentions to return as the dependent variable, with independent variables including rural sentiment, social compatibility, risk tolerance, family support, and life satisfaction. The findings reveal nine distinct pathways that meet the criteria of perfect consistency (1.0) and demonstrate high explanatory power (coverage of 89.19%). These pathways are categorized into four types based on underlying motivations: emotion-oriented, value-oriented, responsibility-oriented, and social-oriented. The results offer theoretical and practical insights into encouraging talent return in rural China, emphasizing the importance of a multifaceted approach that incorporates emotional, social, and familial considerations. The study's findings are contextualized within the Chinese socioeconomic environment, offering valuable insights into rural–urban dynamics in China. These findings could also be applied to other countries and regions with similar urban–rural dynamics and immigration patterns.

Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults’ Intentions to Stay for Employment

Ha Young Choi, Karen Z. Kramer

This study examines how community perceptions, family-related factors, and other psychosocial factors collectively shape young adults' intentions to stay in their nonmetropolitan communities for employment. Research on nonmetropolitan populations' intentions to stay has increasingly highlighted community factors, including perceptions of the community and social connections. However, perceptions of the community have often been studied linearly and researchers have overlooked the multidimensional nature of employment decisions. Thus, this study conducted a latent profile analysis of 513 nonmetropolitan young adults and identified four distinct profiles: positive perceptions of social and professional characteristics (38.79%), positive perceptions of overall community characteristics (35.28%), positive perceptions of long-term life planning characteristics (15.79%), and negative perceptions of overall community characteristics (10.14%). Path analyses indicated that community perception profiles, characterized by more positive perceptions of family-friendliness and enjoyment of an active social and professional life, are associated with greater intention to obtain or retain local employment in a nonmetropolitan community. The findings are mediated by the effects of embeddedness within a community and organization. Family support also plays a crucial role in job seekers' intentions to stay for employment. They also value their own perceptions of fewer barriers to staying in nonmetropolitan organizations. These findings provide policy implications for attracting and retaining young nonmetropolitan workers by aligning their aspirations with community, work, and social characteristics.

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)

Willemien Van Damme, Pascal De Decker, Hans Leinfelder

The social construction of rurality remains a collective fantasy of a safe, green, ethnically homogeneous environment. This fantasy, called “the rural idyll,” still dominates the way in which people give meaning to their lives, the lives of others, and the places where they live. This idyll is based on an interrelated urban/ethnic diverse versus rural/white dichotomy, even as rural areas are in fact becoming more ethnically diverse. The question of how ethnic diversity is understood, in traditional media, through the fantasy of the rural idyll is central to this paper. Drawing on recurring stories in 450 newspaper articles in the Flemish written press covering rural ethnic diversity, we identify four different ideal-type frames: growing ethnic diversity as a (1) threat to the rural idyll, (2) confirmation of the rural idyll, (3) the consequence of rural deprivation, and (4) the solution to rural deprivation. Our analysis shows that a large proportion of the newspaper articles use “ethnic diversity as a threat to the rural idyll.” This connects with the long-standing anti-urban discourse in Flanders (Belgium). Nevertheless, the presence and emergence of other frames indicate that this discourse does not remain not unchallenged.

“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life

Michael Branch

Police radio scanners are a common feature of homes in rural Upstate New York, but little attention has been given to how their use affects local communities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents of a small town in the Adirondack Park, I examine how the scanner becomes a key factor in structuring experiences of daily life. A common feature of rural communities, the scanner positions policing at the center of everyday life, shapes perceptions of criminality and policing for those listening, and may have significant consequences for vulnerable residents. The scanner provides residents with the opportunity to develop informal networks of care, yet simultaneously limits the ability of some residents to access community and emergency services. I argue that the scanner comes to mediate contradictory structures for the town and blends police power and presence with the experience of everyday rural social life as part of broader processes that delineate, justify, and legitimize boundaries of social difference. Bridging scholarship on rural communities and police technology, this project advances a framework to understand how the scanner shapes and structures access to symbolic capital vis-a-vis the state and logics of policing in the name of community safety.

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《中国社会学学刊》（The Journal of Chinese Sociology）于2014年10月由中国社会科学院社会学研究所创办。作为中国大陆第一本英文社会学学术期刊，JCS致力于为中国社会学者与国外同行的学术交流和合作打造国际一流的学术平台。JCS由全球最大科技期刊出版集团施普林格·自然(Springer Nature)出版发行，由国内外顶尖社会学家组成强大编委会队伍，采用双向匿名评审方式和“开放获取”(open access)出版模式。JCS已于2021年5月被ESCI收录。2022年，JCS的CiteScore分值为2.0（Q2），在社科类别的262种期刊中排名第94位，位列同类期刊前36%。2023年，JCS在科睿唯安发布的2023年度《期刊引证报告》（JCR）中首次获得影响因子并达到1.5（Q3）。

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